you didn’t have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don’t even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No you didn’t have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don’t need that though
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know

I know I shouldn’t complain about a free podcast, but I’d pay for this if it helped get a move on things. We’re on the 4th month of the year and we have had ONE official episode in 2014. I don’t want to be mean, it’s only because I enjoy the podcast so much that I rail in anger.

Great podcast; very enjoyable. Matt, you were excellent; Matt, you did okay.

Listen, I’m only gonna make complaints when it relates to the essence of the podcast, i.e., the world of James Bond. And it’s an attempt to be helpful, not a put-down. Here:

SPECTRE: Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.

You keep saying “Counter-Terrorism”, but if you think a moment about what that term means, you’ll realize it’s the opposite of what SPECTRE does.

I’ve been thinking about why Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan just don’t quite work for me as Bond. They’re both good actors, and Dalton especially brings the sort of ruthless, dangerous quality Bond needs. But they both had two handicaps: 1) Generally weak scripts; 2) Already being familiar actors.

Expanding on that second point: Bond movies were my introduction to Sean Connery. He’s done a lot of other stuff (like “Robin and Marian”, one of my favorite movies), but I’ll always think of Bond first. Same with Roger Moore, and to some extent with Daniel Craig (I think I’d only seen him before in “Layer Cake”, which is a tough British crime movie, so it’s not that far removed).

But Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan were both already established in my mind, and I think with the general public, as familiar actors. Ridiculous as it seems, that makes one aware that the guy’s just *pretending* to be James Bond. The Bond movies require a hefty suspension of disbelief.

So I’m hoping that whoever is the next Bond will be a relative unknown.

Wow, not one person put Roger Moore at the end where he belonged? It goes Connery>Craig>Dalton>Brosnan>Lazenby>Nelson>Moore for me, for what it’s worth. Excusing the Moore performances on the horrid scripts he was saddled with only goes so far.

Brosnan got stuck with some real turd sandwich scripts, but that whole era (and Dalton’s too really) were very wayward I think. As Matt explained, they suffered from trying to compete with the big action franchises of the 90s, and poor Broz couldn’t decide which Bond he was supposed to be…

Anyway, loved the ep guys, a lot of fun. Matt Mira, please get 198High5 up and running, lord knows you need another podcast!